What happened on January 02, 2000

BOOKS

The Multiculti West JOHN MACK FARAGHER, John Mack Faragher is coauthor with Robert V. Hine of "The American West: A New Interpretive History." A professor of history at Yale University, he is currently a research fellow at the Huntington Library

Box Office DAVID S. KATZ, David S. Katz is the author (with Richard H. Popkin) of "Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium." He is a professor of history at Tel-Aviv University in Israel

Heaven's Gate MARTIN MALIA, Martin Malia is the author of "The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991" and "Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum." He is professor emeritus of history at UC Berkeley

Dooming Students to Failure VIRGINIA RILEY, Editor's note: The writer is an 83-year-old grandmother who is serving her second year as a volunteer elementary school classroom aide. At the invitation of the Reading Page, she has written a layperson's view of the struggles students face today as they learn to read in the public schools. Other viewpoints are welcome

OPINION

Future Shock Walter Russell Mead, Walter Russell Mead, a contributing editor to Opinion, is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of "Mortal Splendor: The American Empire in Transition."